Canine Predatory Motor Sequence: Understand Your Dog's Prey Drive To Enrich Your Life Together #232
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
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Why do Beagles, Border Collies, Belgian Malinois, Boston Terriers (and most breeds) present different dog training challenges? It’s because their Predatory Motor Sequence aka Predation Sequence creates a behavior pattern of eight events selected for some breeds but removed from others. Recognizing which of these eight exists in your dog allows you to enrich, train, reinforce, and avoid denial of things critical to their well-being. Today I’m showing you how to spot these patterns and sharing unique tips and fun games to support or redirect some of the predator sequences inherent in your dog. Enjoy!
In this episode you’ll hear:
• The 8 patterns of a domesticated dog’s Predatory Motor Sequence.
• How to identify the Predatory Sequence traits in your own dog.
• How certain breeds like Border Collies were bred selectively for certain predatory traits and not others.
• How dogs present their predatory traits through play with toys.
• The different prey drives of many different dog breeds.
• The various ways dogs stalk that most people don’t recognize.
• Dog training games for chasing, hunting, biting, and stalking.
• That it’s better for dogs to dismember food toys than stuffed animals.
• Awesome enrichment ideas and training games to redirect or highlight your breed’s predatory instincts.
Resources:
1. Crate Games Online - https://get.crategames.com/
2. Podcast Episode 104: Naughty Dog Behaviors And How To Deal With Them - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/104
3. Podcast Episode 25: How All Dogs Can Bite and How to Reduce the Risk with R.E.A.D. - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/25/
4. Podcast Episode 105: Your Dog Agility And Dog Sports Questions Covered - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/105/
5. Podcast Episode 58: How to Create Kid Friendly Dogs and Dog Friendly Kids - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/58/
6. Podcast Episode 18: 4 Puppy and Dog Training Games for Acquired Bite Inhibition - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/18/
7. YouTube Playlist: Target Training for Dogs with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy3ylCyQ2bJQSCwo_ERiVHj3&si=B5Io4kui_7OB21lz
8. Podcast Episode 89: Why Dogs Should Not Tug: The Truth Revealed - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/89/
9. Podcast Episode 55: Pro Dog Trainer’s Guide to Toy Selection - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/55/
10. Podcast Episode 189: All The Things That Influence Your Dog’s Behavior And What Behavior Tells You - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/189/
11. Podcast Episode 217: Understanding Emotional Regulation In Dogs To Create Calm - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/217/
12. Podcast Episode 24: Help for Dogs who Chase Chipmunks, Bicycles, and Neighbor’s Cats (Distraction Intensity Index) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/24/
13. Nina Ottosson Puzzles - https://www.nina-ottosson.com/products/all-products/
14. Podcast Episode 226: Safe Toys For Dogs And Why To Avoid Tennis Balls And Sticks - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/226/
15. YouTube Playlist: Dog Training Games with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy2TzttCtZVFwzwMGayAsaYe&si=8DbnAp84CDe_7GbU
16. Podcast Episode 54: Dog Toy Checklist: What’s Good and What to Avoid - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/54/
17. *Kong Toys - https://geni.us/kong-toy
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19. *JW Hol-ee Roller - https://geni.us/holee-roller
20. YouTube Playlist: Puppy Essentials with Susan Garrett Dog Training - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy2hywpv3Md3HbWWPPbVF8W5&si=Qxs08XRjsuIpFtfS
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24. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/uHBLvBj0Jqo
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know that a beagle, a Boston Terrier, a Bordecaule and a Belgian Malinua? |
| 0:04.8 | I just pick four breeds with bee names. All four of those dogs are going to present very different |
| 0:10.8 | training challenges to you. And there's a reason for it. And that is the topic of today's |
| 0:16.8 | podcast. |
| 0:28.7 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. |
| 0:30.4 | Welcome to Shape by Dog. |
| 0:34.9 | Today we're going to be talking about something that is called the predatory motor sequence or some people call it predation sequence. It's actually a |
| 0:39.9 | pattern of behavior that goes back to wolves. It's how wolves hunt. It's how wolves stay alive. |
| 0:46.2 | And you may be thinking, hey Susan, I thought like we shouldn't draw many conclusions from |
| 0:50.2 | wolves because our dogs are so far away from them. They are, and here's the thing, the predatory |
| 0:55.0 | sequence has changed dramatically in domesticated dogs because of the intense breeding |
| 1:00.3 | for certain traits that people loved. So let me walk you through what this sequence looks like. |
| 1:05.1 | First of all, I think the acronym that is most commonly used is kind of crap, the PMS. It's predation motor sequence. And it's |
| 1:13.4 | described as eight different unique events. First one is orient. So, imagine your dogs out in the |
| 1:20.4 | field and something just catches their eye. They orient their body and their head to that. |
| 1:24.7 | They could hear something. They could see something, they could smell something. |
| 1:27.7 | I guess they could also have something touch them, but that wouldn't be very normal. Now, |
| 1:31.7 | Orient is the first event in the sequence. Orient turns into eye, which really is focus. So, |
| 1:38.6 | they orient to somethings out there, boom. All right, I got you. So, as soon as they start to eye, then that will lead |
| 1:47.3 | into stalking. Stalking is creeping up on whatever. What triggers the stalking? The ability to |
| 1:55.2 | eye. So, you're not going to see even a border collie who is probably the best known stalker in the canine world, you're |
| 2:01.9 | not going to see them just randomly start stalking and looking for something. They stalk after |
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